The group is thriving with a core of eight regular and committed members. We meet once a month and enjoy sharing our efforts at writing with our peers who offer comments and advice. We all have different strengths and are prepared to lead sessions depending on our interests. Recent meetings, for example, have concentrated on finding our creativity looking at both fiction and non-fiction (travel writing and tweeting). We have listened to short stories by published authors and analysed what makes a good story. We have used our senses to inspire descriptive pieces and have experimented with epistolary writing. Currently we are in the process of publishing our third anthology entitled 'Book of Celebration' containing poems, short stories and articles produced over the year. Copies are being sold to U3A members and their friends with profits going to The Wellspring. Pat George